Routing and scheduling temporal and heterogeneous freight car traffic on rail networks

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 101-115

  Kwon, Oh Kyoung ^a   Maryland, Carl D ^b   Sussman, Joseph M ^b  

^a Korea Transport Institute (KOTI)   (South Korea)

^b USA   (United States)

Author keywords

Freight; Optimization; Rail

Indexed keywords

CAR SCHEDULING; FREIGHT TRANSPORT; RAILWAY TRANSPORT; TRANSPORT LOGISTICS;

USA;

EID: 0031656848     PISSN: 13665545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1366-5545(97)00022-7     Document Type: Article

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